Countries With the Highest Birth Rates

Every country with a figure for birth rate, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are Central African Republic (46.2), Chad (43.3) and Somalia, Fed. Rep. (42.3). The middle country of the 217 has 13.4.

What this measures

Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people). Source: World Bank. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2024–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on birth rate

• Countries With the Lowest Birth Rates
• Birth rate by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Highest European Ancestry
• Countries With the Highest African Ancestry
• Countries With the Highest Indigenous American Ancestry
• Countries With the Highest East Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Highest South Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Highest Middle Eastern Ancestry
• Countries With the Highest Ethnic Diversity
• Countries With the Highest Median Ages

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.